Terrence Malick directs, so this film is all mood, with glorious cinematography. No exposition or plot to speak of, those who need all ends tied together will hate it, those who can sit through the loneliness and alienation of others will find it worthwhile.

Cleanskin, is a British made movie starring Sean Bean (The reason I started watching it in the first place.) as an anti-terrorism expert hunting down a suicide bomber cell. I found it fast paced with lots of twists and turns, very graphic violence. I give it a B-.

The author was a construction worker in Mexico who wrote in spare time and kept his writings with his parents. Just before getting married he burned all the manuscripts he wrote, including this one. When his wife heard this, she asked him to rewrite the story and managed to get it published.

Oblivion - It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be but still has some major misgivings.

Cruise was good in it but it ripped off so many key ideas from other films so blatantly it was hard to view as a serious sci-fi effort (it ripped off Moon really badly, as well as 2001: A Space Odyssey and a few other films).

Oblivion - It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be but still has some major misgivings.

Cruise was good in it but it ripped off so many key ideas from other films so blatantly it was hard to view as a serious sci-fi effort (it ripped off Moon really badly, as well as 2001: A Space Odyssey and a few other films).

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Moon was quite interesting. However, instead of the clones being born as babies, they are born as fully grown adults with the memories of the original (I presume this is so so they can take over the job of the original immediately). And yet there are wide variations in behaviour.

If not, i dunno why they put the memories of the original into the clones.

The brutality with QT is humorous. Yellow Sea is the one with the North Korean cab driver? Saw that one and loved it but I enjoyed Old Boy ( not quite the other two in the trilogy) and The Man from Nowhere. I guess I tend towards the brutal parts of it. Other Korean films I liked are Tae Guk Gi, Mother, The Chaser, I Saw the Devil etc

Any Indian movies you recommend?

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I just got around to seeing The Yellow Sea - yes about the Korean cab driver. I absolutely loved watching people running after each other with machettes and pick-axes and stabbing each other viciously. How delightful for someone who lives non-violently.

I was overjoyed to see dozens of people being hacked and stabbed multiple times and still running around stabbing others. And of course I learned that you can be shot in the arm and still haul yourself up -- from the sea -- when your body is probably soaked in water.

Jack Nicholson would have killed for a role in this flick, considering he nevr got to hack anyone in The Shining, not even his own dear son. Alfie must be turning in his grave thinking how he could not show any violence / gore in the shower scene (Psycho) while here people were chopping each other to bits like cucumbers and tomatoes.

Well made documentary look at the life of Angela Davis, certainly a little agenda-driven but you'll come away from it in awe of her ability and resilience. Saw it at a film festival, the director seemed perhaps pleased that Joanne Chesimard made the FBI Ten Most Wanted list last week, brings that era of history back into focus.

Was wondering how the Germans, or the Europeans in general, could go to war after hearing such music. How could anyone hate or kill after hearing the works of Beethoven or Mozart or the Russian composers.

Oldboy [2004]. It's a South Korean film that really...can't be described. It begins with a man who is imprisoned in a hotel room. He can't figure out who or why but it becomes his mission to find out after being released after 15yrs of confinement. That's only the beginning because after that there's an overdose of crazy as you're taken on a wild ride of mystery, emotion, fear and vengeance.
Spike Lee is doing a remake that's coming out this year and this in itself is a mystery.

Oldboy [2004]. It's a South Korean film that really...can't be described. It begins with a man who is imprisoned in a hotel room. He can't figure out who or why but it becomes his mission to find out after being released after 15yrs of confinement. That's only the beginning because after that there's an overdose of crazy as you're taken on a wild ride of mystery, emotion, fear and vengeance.
Spike Lee is doing a remake that's coming out this year and this in itself is a mystery.